On Wednesday 14 June 2006 11:10, Mark Hahn wrote:
> when a vendor starts using the phrase "supported platform",
> I always ask "tell me about the bugs in your code which violate
> the ABI". apps should list a required set of ABIs.
I remember the pain one of the people I know in Melbourne went through trying
to get Gaussian to build on their cluster - turned out (they said) it
required a specific version of a particular vendors compiler to get it to
build.
My thought at the time was that they must have tried *really* hard to get it
to the point where the code was broken enough to be that dependant on
compiler behaviour.. :-(
cheers!
Chris
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